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will the president's health care law make it. we have doctors who stopped accepting medicare and medicaid. and dr. hall who left her practice because it was too hard to make end's meet. >> first of all welcome back. what is the toughest problem that you are having right now. >> we are concerned about keeping the doors open. two days ago, a 38-year-old woman came to me who lost her gynecologist. they had gone out of business because of low reimbursement from medicare and medicaid. we are fakes decreasing reimbursement and increasing cost of doing business. >> doctor, the patient who has medicare and medicaid. it is not like it cost you 100 to go through the s we would have to employ separate people who are experts to handle just medicare when everybody else can do everything else. it was regulations really and the bureaucracy is huge. >> when you talk about codes, we get forms from the doctor and numbers on the side that's what you are talking about. codes o864. we don't pay attention to the number but you have to pay attention to
will the president's health care law make it. we have doctors who stopped accepting medicare and medicaid. and dr. hall who left her practice because it was too hard to make end's meet. >> first of all welcome back. what is the toughest problem that you are having right now. >> we are concerned about keeping the doors open. two days ago, a 38-year-old woman came to me who lost her gynecologist. they had gone out of business because of low reimbursement from medicare and medicaid. we...
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federal law enforcement firms said the gunman was a ticketed passenger. they don't believe the gunman had ever worked for the tsa. that's new. antiterrorism officials were on scene, but they say there was no indication of any terrorist groups and they believe he acted alone and the police chief said he came in at 9:20 a.m., pulled out an assault rifle and began firing. authorities tracked him down and shot him. near a burger king restaurant that we've been mentioning just a short time ago. it's still quite a scene outside as people are trying to get back to home in some cases. you see folks with their bags with them and the chopper shot pulls out a bit and again, thanks to kabc in los angeles. you can see it's become sort of a media staging point right along what looks to me like century boulevard. that's probably supelveda as los angeles international airport is still not open. a partial reopening scheduled to happen about 12 minutes from now and we'll be back after this. with a mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. if y
federal law enforcement firms said the gunman was a ticketed passenger. they don't believe the gunman had ever worked for the tsa. that's new. antiterrorism officials were on scene, but they say there was no indication of any terrorist groups and they believe he acted alone and the police chief said he came in at 9:20 a.m., pulled out an assault rifle and began firing. authorities tracked him down and shot him. near a burger king restaurant that we've been mentioning just a short time ago. it's...
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apparently had run ins with the law. his family has spoken, never saw this coming. they are devastated, can't explain what happened. there didn't seem to be a motive, at least as police could tell. he seemed intent on taking his own life, on not leaving alive, as they put it. perhaps committing suicide, suicide by cop as it's called, and he wanted to be killed. no clue what was going on in his mind. obviously whenever something like this happens, it doesn't make any sense. the bottom line, here at this mall, it's a huge place as you can see from the pictures earlier, the authorities are saying protocols, training worked in this case. they are saying so many people sheltered in place, s.w.a.t. teams arrived, coordinated response that saved lives. again, miraculous that everybody here got out safely. >> indeed. ron allen, that you so much for that report. coming up, we'll have more special super tuesday election coverage. big races for governor in new jersey and virginia are capturing a lot of attention. but it's a busy day all across the country. here is a breakdown
apparently had run ins with the law. his family has spoken, never saw this coming. they are devastated, can't explain what happened. there didn't seem to be a motive, at least as police could tell. he seemed intent on taking his own life, on not leaving alive, as they put it. perhaps committing suicide, suicide by cop as it's called, and he wanted to be killed. no clue what was going on in his mind. obviously whenever something like this happens, it doesn't make any sense. the bottom line, here...
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and mitt romney's health care law, which passed here in massachusetts. and he's going to make a couple of important points. one, he's going to say that there was a slow and somewhat rocky rollout here in massachusetts. 123 people signed up in the first month. that number started to swell over time. and then he will say, look, massachusetts is an example of universal health care that works. 97% of people here in massachusetts now have health care. but of course, there are some big differences rollout wasn't quite as rocky. you didn't see all of the glitches that we are seeing with the president's health care law. of course. >> it was servicing smaller group of people. so that is one of the reasons. but another key difference is that the enrollment process was really something that took place over phases. people had a year to sign up, which is a longer period than folks have with the president's health care law. and then a big difference is that there was bipartisan support for the massachusetts health care law. you had a democratic legislature which passe
and mitt romney's health care law, which passed here in massachusetts. and he's going to make a couple of important points. one, he's going to say that there was a slow and somewhat rocky rollout here in massachusetts. 123 people signed up in the first month. that number started to swell over time. and then he will say, look, massachusetts is an example of universal health care that works. 97% of people here in massachusetts now have health care. but of course, there are some big differences...
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. >> you didn't read the law as nancy pelosi said you should. >> it's not just health care.gov that's glitching, the entire enterprise of obama care is doomed to failure. >> this law itself is born from an architecture that's just not workable. >> the foundation he's talking about is the system of health care exchanges. >> you leave medicare as is, or you can have federal subsidies so you can go out and buy your own. >> in the medical exchange. you have coverage options within medicare, you get to pick among these plans, they have to meet at least medicare's criteria. >> the ryan plan uses federally run exchanges just like obama care. >> it transforms medicare into a plan that's very similar to the president's own health care bill. >> obama care takes everyone in the individual market and puts them on regulated government run insurance exchange, one step closer to singer payer, but not there. the ryan plan takes seniors on medicare, a single payer system and puts them on a government run exchange, one big step backward. so you think the rollout of a federal exchange for 7 million peop
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law. he criticizes scalia for elevating dictionaries over realism and common sense which hammered decisions from gun rights to allowing too much money in our politics and he his in his new book that it can be a cover for a political agenda. joining us today, richard posner, judge, author, thinker, thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> let me start with a point you make in the book. you refer to a sign say outside of the restaurant, no animals allowed. pretty simple. and you say that we would have to interpret that not literally, you write there's a danger in appealing to generalities to decide cases a human being is an animal. a sign forbidding animals in a restaurant sure not be interpreted to ban humans and judges shouldn't apply a law based on the meaning of words compose it and they have to have a sense of what the rule is concerned with. why is that important in the court? >> why is it important? that particular example, that shows that no one committed dictionary definitions thin
law. he criticizes scalia for elevating dictionaries over realism and common sense which hammered decisions from gun rights to allowing too much money in our politics and he his in his new book that it can be a cover for a political agenda. joining us today, richard posner, judge, author, thinker, thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> let me start with a point you make in the book. you refer to a sign say outside of the restaurant, no animals allowed. pretty simple. and you say...
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>> al, the federal law is based on the massachusetts law. it's really the same basic structure. it's a great structure. it's worked incredibly successfully here. we've covered 2/3 of the uninsured and it's been broadly popular. and it will be once americans understand what's in this law. >> but the main difference is the mandate, right? >> no. the mandate was put in place here in massachusetts. >> oh, wait a minute. there was a mandate in massachusetts? so all this criticism about the mandate now federal, they forgot about the mandate in massachusetts? >> the basic framework of a mandate was developed by the heritage foundation in the early 1990s as opposition to the clinton health care plan. it was adopted by governor romney, became the law. president obama who remember was initially opposed to the mandate came around to understand this is the right way to do things. and to his credit he adopted it and maid a part of it plan. >> congresswoman, that's breaking news. they were the ones that wanted a mandate as an alternative to clinton. and now they're the ones that are all over
>> al, the federal law is based on the massachusetts law. it's really the same basic structure. it's a great structure. it's worked incredibly successfully here. we've covered 2/3 of the uninsured and it's been broadly popular. and it will be once americans understand what's in this law. >> but the main difference is the mandate, right? >> no. the mandate was put in place here in massachusetts. >> oh, wait a minute. there was a mandate in massachusetts? so all this...
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laws as bad as they are. no. 5.9 million americans have lost their voting rights sometimes for life because of crimes they once committed. in virginia alone, more than 300,000 citizens will be barred from the polls tonight. including 20% of the state's black population. the saying goes do the crime and pay by the time. but for many who committed a felony and served their sentences, they're never really done paying. it's just another sign of our broken criminal justice system. today we live in a nation with more prisoners than high school teachers. that's a statistic that we should be ashamed of. and on election night, we should be talking about what happens after the election. what can we do to bring about change to millions trapped in this system? actor, author, and humanitarian hill hopper is looking to do something about it. you know him from his roll on the hit tv drama "csi: new york" and the cia bureau chief on the usa network spy drama "covert affairs." but his latest role is as author of "letters to a
laws as bad as they are. no. 5.9 million americans have lost their voting rights sometimes for life because of crimes they once committed. in virginia alone, more than 300,000 citizens will be barred from the polls tonight. including 20% of the state's black population. the saying goes do the crime and pay by the time. but for many who committed a felony and served their sentences, they're never really done paying. it's just another sign of our broken criminal justice system. today we live in a...
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sloppy rollout of the exchanges online, and rejected the president's praise of the health care reform law, and he said he passed a similar one in massachusetts. >> in massachusetts we phased in the requirements so that there was a slow rollout, and that way you can test the systems as you went along to make sure there would not be glitches and perhaps the most important lesson the president, i think, failed to learn was, you have to tell the american people the truth. >> meanwhile, senior white house correspondent said the president did keep his white house and pointed the finger at insurance companies. >> if the president didn't intend to keep his promise, why would he go out of his way to make a provision. if your plan has been downgraded or cancelled, you can't. >> and steve, we heard from governor romney blasting the president today on his health care legislation that became one of the largest laws our land has ever seen and now what are other republicans saying? >> they want details on the website and what went wrong and the health care system and not just the health care website. on
sloppy rollout of the exchanges online, and rejected the president's praise of the health care reform law, and he said he passed a similar one in massachusetts. >> in massachusetts we phased in the requirements so that there was a slow rollout, and that way you can test the systems as you went along to make sure there would not be glitches and perhaps the most important lesson the president, i think, failed to learn was, you have to tell the american people the truth. >> meanwhile,...
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. >> ever since the law was passed, you got to replace them with quality comprehensive coverage. >> how frustrated is he? >> we're in this together. we'll see it through. >> we need to delay the mandate tax. we need to fix this problem. >> it's been a rough couple weeks in washington. >> the shutdown was so magnificent, run beautifully. i'm so proud of these republicans. >> it's an american horror story politically. >> happy halloween. >> now that raphael call me ted cruz, he might need to get his father to tone it down, too. >> the attacks not just come from the liberals. the attacks come from the other side too. all these republicans in name only. washington is not used to what they have seen with senator ted cruz. as a matter of fact, one of those rhinos came to him within the first months like that saying, now, look, you're a junior senator. you're supposed to be quiet. and he said, i was not elected to be quiet. i'm not going to be quiet. >> was that john mccain that said that? >> i refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me. >> of course raphael cruz, sr. saves h
. >> ever since the law was passed, you got to replace them with quality comprehensive coverage. >> how frustrated is he? >> we're in this together. we'll see it through. >> we need to delay the mandate tax. we need to fix this problem. >> it's been a rough couple weeks in washington. >> the shutdown was so magnificent, run beautifully. i'm so proud of these republicans. >> it's an american horror story politically. >> happy halloween. >>...
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it's a law. i know the tea people think they know the constitution. i don't think they have read it. a bill becomes a law. once it does, you don't argue about it. that the now how they played it. they will filibuster. we will shut down the defendant. we'll go to the matt in every possible way and book to repeal it 41 times. really, that's the patriot i can thing to do about a program trying to bring health care to people in this country who don't have it? >> i have warned you nicely to leave the top of the pot and the boiling center coming out of you, i want to mention two words to you to come back after the break. >> all true. >> think about it, ted cruz. >> great. >> don't say nothing. just ferment for the next three minutes. [ laughter ] i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 40
it's a law. i know the tea people think they know the constitution. i don't think they have read it. a bill becomes a law. once it does, you don't argue about it. that the now how they played it. they will filibuster. we will shut down the defendant. we'll go to the matt in every possible way and book to repeal it 41 times. really, that's the patriot i can thing to do about a program trying to bring health care to people in this country who don't have it? >> i have warned you nicely to...
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a law enforcement officer roving, have a law enforcement officer at the departure gang way and those kinds of things. >> because mike, in that initial entrance to the airport, whether it's in the united states or overseas, you do sometimes see even heavily armed security personnel wondering around, but there is not -- there's not that many layers you can put before you get to that screening. >> no, but there is a lot you don't also see involved in aviation security. i was with delta airlines after law enforcement. i was general manager of delta airlines during 9/11. since 9/11 there are more layers of security from that front door, even when you just enter the grounds of the airport, on the roads leading up to the airports, anderson, that people don't see. there is surveillance cameras, there are people -- there are law enforcement officers and tsa folks in plain clothes also armed. there is a lot of layers you don't see but i'm sure they will look at this because it still is troubling that this gunman was able to get to the gate, and if, you know, there had been a plane at a particu
a law enforcement officer roving, have a law enforcement officer at the departure gang way and those kinds of things. >> because mike, in that initial entrance to the airport, whether it's in the united states or overseas, you do sometimes see even heavily armed security personnel wondering around, but there is not -- there's not that many layers you can put before you get to that screening. >> no, but there is a lot you don't also see involved in aviation security. i was with delta...
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laws were were passed over in wisconsin. these are the same people whos passed these laws in texas. they made it an emergency piece of legislation, the same people who are passing these laws are the same people who want to roll back civil rights and women's rights and for young people take away any opportunity to go to college. so this was part of the party's platform for making it harder to vote for particular groups. >> so we look at your website and we have staggering statistics and eye openers for people. in texas, over one in ten registered voters lack i.d. and we have 127 counties that don't have i.d.-issuing facilities and the justice department that's currently suing texas over the strict law. so what's next in the battle and what role do you in the advancement project play? >> right. first, you should know that the department of justice says about $1.4 million eligible voters in the state of texas do not have the i.d. that's required and so what we have to do now is there's litigation that's going on that's brought by the department of justice and a number of civil rights o
laws were were passed over in wisconsin. these are the same people whos passed these laws in texas. they made it an emergency piece of legislation, the same people who are passing these laws are the same people who want to roll back civil rights and women's rights and for young people take away any opportunity to go to college. so this was part of the party's platform for making it harder to vote for particular groups. >> so we look at your website and we have staggering statistics and...
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you are a part of this law. you are literally in charge of this law. should you be any different than all of the other americans out there who are losing their health insurance? >> i'm part of the 9 a% with affordable available health coverage. >> and joining us now from washington is congresswoman marcia blackburn. so, first of all, your overall assessment of secretary sebelius, is she incompetent? is she, you know, a person with no clue? what? >> i think that what we saw was a very defensive secretary sebelius and, you know, bill, there is an old thing that you manage asset and you lead people. i think she lacks and the president lacks that key component of the ability to lead people. she didn't even know who was specifically in charge of spending all this money and hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money. >> okay. >> so she wasn't a micromanager on the rollout of obama care -- >> -- not at all. >> which was her big thing. that's what the secretary is in charge of doing. she came across today, in my opinion, as not daughterring, she was kin
you are a part of this law. you are literally in charge of this law. should you be any different than all of the other americans out there who are losing their health insurance? >> i'm part of the 9 a% with affordable available health coverage. >> and joining us now from washington is congresswoman marcia blackburn. so, first of all, your overall assessment of secretary sebelius, is she incompetent? is she, you know, a person with no clue? what? >> i think that what we saw was...
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. >> to reverse the health care law. to say he caved is ridiculous. there's no way it could have happened. ted cruz might have gone to harvard but nobody in his base has even gone to high school civics apparently because they believe what he's telling him and it's not physically possible. >> meantime it's worse, report has crumbled in one year. 63% of women now have an unfavorable view, 46% of senators have unfavorable view, 67% of independents, 70% of white college graduates now have an unfavorable view. to say nothing about black people and hispanics, gays and lesbians. >> in the reality-based community, those who reside in it, those numbers would freak people out. grownups in the republican party should be freaked out by those numbers. when you live in the short-term political -- i don't want to say reality. >> in space where no one can hear you scream. >> ted cruz, senator ted cruz and mike lee and all these other folks on the far right fringe reside, they don't care about numbers. that's a long-term problem. for them the number they care about wa
. >> to reverse the health care law. to say he caved is ridiculous. there's no way it could have happened. ted cruz might have gone to harvard but nobody in his base has even gone to high school civics apparently because they believe what he's telling him and it's not physically possible. >> meantime it's worse, report has crumbled in one year. 63% of women now have an unfavorable view, 46% of senators have unfavorable view, 67% of independents, 70% of white college graduates now...
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only 24% want to see the law repealed. and 13% say they want the law repealed and replaced with a republican sponsored alternative. clearly not a vote of confidence for the republicans. 13%. and clearly 47% saying we want to keep or expand obama care. >> yeah. and imagine what the numbers would be like if the republicans actually had a viable alternative to the law that they're trying to kill. one. and two, wouldn't it be nice if the republican party rather than trying to kill settled law worked with the administration and democrats in the house and senate to make the law better. no one's saying that the law is perfect. but certainly it -- you know, the way government is supposed to work is that the opposition looks for a problem and tries to say here's our plan to make it better. and here's why you should focus on what we're doing. that's not what the republicans are doing at all in this case. >> no. i think that's telling. when you look at the republican plan, the only one we saw was romney care, massachusetts. that's ri
only 24% want to see the law repealed. and 13% say they want the law repealed and replaced with a republican sponsored alternative. clearly not a vote of confidence for the republicans. 13%. and clearly 47% saying we want to keep or expand obama care. >> yeah. and imagine what the numbers would be like if the republicans actually had a viable alternative to the law that they're trying to kill. one. and two, wouldn't it be nice if the republican party rather than trying to kill settled law...
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but the fact remains, the law that says, if then in ohio that law doesn't exist. >> that's absolutely correct, shep. that law does not exist. as sympathetic as it is. there's no much sing as a mercy killing defense. that leads me to believe that that's good evidence for the prosecution. because the prosecution is going to rely upon those statements to say that mr. wise knew what he was doing, he didn't want his wife to suffer, and that he took the matter and he took the law into his own hands by shooting her. and of course, that admission to the doctor asking is she dead, that implicates that he perhaps knew what he was doing. so the prosecution is going to use those statements to their advantage whereas the defense is really going to rely upon their experts to say that he didn't know what he was doing and therefore he shouldn't be guilty by reason of insanity. in my opinion, it's going to be a far stretch. it's going to be very difficult to win in this case gimp those facts. >>> fox report now. secretary of state john kerry made a stop in saudi arabia to meet with leaders including k
but the fact remains, the law that says, if then in ohio that law doesn't exist. >> that's absolutely correct, shep. that law does not exist. as sympathetic as it is. there's no much sing as a mercy killing defense. that leads me to believe that that's good evidence for the prosecution. because the prosecution is going to rely upon those statements to say that mr. wise knew what he was doing, he didn't want his wife to suffer, and that he took the matter and he took the law into his own...
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government data requests be made through lawful means and lawful purposes. unlike the court-approved program we heard so much, prism, this program is called muscular. it occurs from undisclosed intersection points. bill: elizabeth plan, thank you for the story. we're covering that a little later today out of washington. martha. martha: we have a jam-packed show for you today including the big night in beantown. >> it hasn't happened in fenway park for 5 years! red sox are world champions. martha: have that line ready to go. they poured on to the field. the red sox clinched their third world series title since 2004 and first at home game they won the world series at in almost a century. the celebration, folks, they were all over the place in boston last night. we are live this morning from fenway park. bill: i owe you a month's clam chowder. i will pay up. so get hungry, girl. plus the bus driver with a heart of gold. >> ma'am -- >> [inaudible] >> ma'am? are you okay? bill: how one man foes well above the call of duty to save this woman, you'll see it. martha
government data requests be made through lawful means and lawful purposes. unlike the court-approved program we heard so much, prism, this program is called muscular. it occurs from undisclosed intersection points. bill: elizabeth plan, thank you for the story. we're covering that a little later today out of washington. martha. martha: we have a jam-packed show for you today including the big night in beantown. >> it hasn't happened in fenway park for 5 years! red sox are world champions....
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we've spoken to some families, because of the new rirpts, new laws, we can no offer your current policy. this individual tells us that the closest comparable plan available from an then blue cross is 65% more. another family in north carolina says the plan they are most likely being forced toward is going to cost them $1208 a month. that's a 430% increase over what they were presently paying. >> with a that said, we've talked about the glitches, including this issue overnight, as has been pointed out over and over, those things can be fixed. for those people who have sticker shock and perhaps don't know the process of getting in subsidies or help with paying with this, this could be the thing we're talking about most on wednesday. >> reporter: i think you're right. we reached out to jay carney and i asked if the white house would concede there are winners and losers in the the obama care situation. he would concede that the vast majority of americans will have preferable more affordable plans but cannot deny the fact that some people will pay more. the reason that is, because those amer
we've spoken to some families, because of the new rirpts, new laws, we can no offer your current policy. this individual tells us that the closest comparable plan available from an then blue cross is 65% more. another family in north carolina says the plan they are most likely being forced toward is going to cost them $1208 a month. that's a 430% increase over what they were presently paying. >> with a that said, we've talked about the glitches, including this issue overnight, as has been...
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they're against the law. >> do you think that's a good thing? >> absolutely, because it's doing for people on the individual market what big, huge human resources departments have been doing for years for people who get insurance through their jobs. >> so, the employer-provided health care, the people who are negotiating these big, bulk contracts, they also put in minimum standards into those big contracts when you get employer-provided? >> yes, absolutely. >> dr. sharma, you're now active in health care provider in maryland that's setting up this exchange, and the other thing besides plans getting canceled is the idea of rates going up. we are hearing any time there is an american out there, looks like their rates are going up, they will be on your television set. what is your sense in the early going of on balance what's happening to folks that are going into the exchanges? >> so, you know, i think that when we look at insurance policies being canceled and raising prices and premiums going up, i think those are really great headlines for peopl
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the fact he broke the law, he stole classified material. what i ask the question is, who has been fired at the nsa for being so sloppy, so negligent to allow a 29-year-old to allow a 29-year-old to walk away with highly classified material? nobody has to my knowledge. >> important question. senator leahy, thank you so much for your time this afternoon. we appreciate it. >>> coming up, big news at the supreme court. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins me next. stay with us. you're giving away pie? would you like apple or cherry? cherry. oil...or cream? definitely cream. [ male announcer ] never made with hydrogenated oil. oh, yeah. [ male announcer ] always made with real cream. the sound of reddi wip is the sound of joy. see who does good work and compare costs. it doesn't usually work that way with health care. but with unitedhealthcare, i get information on quality rated doctors, treatment options and estimates for how much i'll pay. that helps me, and my guys, make better decisions. i don't like guesses with my business, a
the fact he broke the law, he stole classified material. what i ask the question is, who has been fired at the nsa for being so sloppy, so negligent to allow a 29-year-old to allow a 29-year-old to walk away with highly classified material? nobody has to my knowledge. >> important question. senator leahy, thank you so much for your time this afternoon. we appreciate it. >>> coming up, big news at the supreme court. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins me next. stay...
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. >> the president's signature health care law, welcome to, everyone, this is "around the world" and a special welcome to our international viewers joining us all of this week. i'm michael holmes. >> i'm hala gorani. we'll have a lot more on the obama carrollout and some of the issues they've had with the website, of course. but for now, let's, as i was saying, moving on there to president obama's signature health care law under fire at a congressional hearing right now. >> yeah, and today we actually heard an apology. this from the administrator whose agency oversaw the creation of the enrollment website, the centers for medicare and medicaid services. have a listen. >> consumers are eager to purchase this coverage. and to the millions of american who have attempted to use healthcare.gov to shop and enroll in health care coverage, i want to apologize to you the website has not worked as well as it should. we know how desperately you need affordable coverage. i want to assure you healthcare.gov can and will be fixed. we are working around the clock to deliver the experience that you
. >> the president's signature health care law, welcome to, everyone, this is "around the world" and a special welcome to our international viewers joining us all of this week. i'm michael holmes. >> i'm hala gorani. we'll have a lot more on the obama carrollout and some of the issues they've had with the website, of course. but for now, let's, as i was saying, moving on there to president obama's signature health care law under fire at a congressional hearing right now....
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the texas law is on appeal. the fact that the supreme court agreed to hear this case and then when it found out how strict the law was says oh, never mind, is probably a bad sign to the laws in those states. it's probably a mistake to read too much into this because the court isn't saying anything about the merits of the law, but if you were an advocate of the laws in those states, it's not a good sign i wouldn't think, chris. >> nbc's pete williams. thank you, pete. >>> three closely watched races tomorrow could shape the face of the republican and democratic party for years to come, and expected none is expected to be close. terry mcauliffe looks to win the virginia's governor's mansion back for democrats. new jersey governor chris christie is sail to re-election. maybe the only politician who might have a bigger margin of victory is bill de blasio in the new york city mayor's race. what does it all mean? stan greenberg has been polling adviser for president clinton and al gore and is co-author of "it's the mi
the texas law is on appeal. the fact that the supreme court agreed to hear this case and then when it found out how strict the law was says oh, never mind, is probably a bad sign to the laws in those states. it's probably a mistake to read too much into this because the court isn't saying anything about the merits of the law, but if you were an advocate of the laws in those states, it's not a good sign i wouldn't think, chris. >> nbc's pete williams. thank you, pete. >>> three...
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david, what is your feeling about this, the coverage that the health care law has gotten in the last few weeks? >> well, look, some of it is self-inflicted because the website hasn't functioned properly. and you know, part of the problem here is that people haven't been able to go on to the website and learn that they could get a better deal. on the other hand, many of these people aren't even being informed in these letters that they have that opportunity or that it's buried in the fine print, and that, you know, that's unacceptable. that's deceptive. and i do think that, you know, there is -- you know, chris, you're an experienced journalist -- there tends to be kind of a herd mentality in coverage. >> yep. >> and now the story is, well, the website's not working, now the letters are out there. and i have no doubt that the opponents are fanning this. i don't think this is all original reporting going on, but i don't think people are digging deep enough. i think the piece you did at the front end was a service in terms of demystifying some of this, but it is problematical. and you k
david, what is your feeling about this, the coverage that the health care law has gotten in the last few weeks? >> well, look, some of it is self-inflicted because the website hasn't functioned properly. and you know, part of the problem here is that people haven't been able to go on to the website and learn that they could get a better deal. on the other hand, many of these people aren't even being informed in these letters that they have that opportunity or that it's buried in the fine...
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but now do you see these laws as potentially affecting impacts? >> absolutely. it's going to be a lot harder in an off-year election, a lot harder without barack obama on the ballot. and texas are voting on tuesday for voter i.d. amendments. their voter i.d. law is now effect because of the supreme court's decision overturning section 4 of the voting rights act. and we're already seeing the outcome of voter i.d. in texas. just yesterday we learned that former speaker of the house, jim wright, who's 90, was denied a voter i.d. in texas, because his driver's license has expired, his tcu faculty i.d. is not accepted. he's 90 years old. he showed up at the dmv, was told, you don't qualify. his assistant got a copy, a certified copy of his birth certificate and now he's going to be able to get an i.d. that costs $22, by the way, otherwise known as a poll tax. how many 90-year-olds are going to have an assistant to be able to do that? by the way, we've also seen, a judge had to sign an affidavit to be able to vote. wendy davis, candidate for governor, had to sign an a
but now do you see these laws as potentially affecting impacts? >> absolutely. it's going to be a lot harder in an off-year election, a lot harder without barack obama on the ballot. and texas are voting on tuesday for voter i.d. amendments. their voter i.d. law is now effect because of the supreme court's decision overturning section 4 of the voting rights act. and we're already seeing the outcome of voter i.d. in texas. just yesterday we learned that former speaker of the house, jim...
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with the rocky rollout of his signature health reform law dominating the news, the political toll is real and it is getting worse. and nowhere is the damage more apparent than in the latest polling from nbc news, where president obama's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 42%. that is a five-point drop from just earlier this month. these numbers, as bad as they are, don't necessarily exist in a vacuum. there's a lot more complexity to the current political environment, which in many ways is the story of american politics in the tea party era. >> let's talk about the president. >> between syria, between the shutdown, between obama care, how are his approval numbers stacking up? >> record lows. >> the president's approval rating dropped five points. >> at an all-time low. >> is this more than just the second-term curse? >> if he goes below where he is right now, he's going to be in george bush territory and that's hard to come back from. >> the latest nbc news poll does, indeed, find that the president's approval rating is at a five-year low, and it is true that his popula
with the rocky rollout of his signature health reform law dominating the news, the political toll is real and it is getting worse. and nowhere is the damage more apparent than in the latest polling from nbc news, where president obama's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 42%. that is a five-point drop from just earlier this month. these numbers, as bad as they are, don't necessarily exist in a vacuum. there's a lot more complexity to the current political environment, which in...
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a miscarriage not reported to law enforcement could put a virginia woman into jail for a year. the state senator who introduced that bill, the guy who's now running as republican candidate for attorney general in the state of virginia which is why the ads against him in the state of virginia look like this. >> if you think ken cuccinelli would take virginia in the wrong direction, wait until you meet obenshane. they co-sponsored a bill together to ban the birth control pill and outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest. a dangerously wrong turn for virginia. >> with ken cuccinelli doing as badly in the campaign, given the stances that he's taken on high profile women's rights issues. that said, that's not the only area of interest for outside group who are willing to get involved in this race. new york city mayor mike bloomberg is -- also his record on guns. watch. >> here are a few things mark obenshane tried to outlaw, birth control pills, women choosing to have an abortion, even in the case of rape or insent. but when it comes to actually criminals, ownen bain voted t
a miscarriage not reported to law enforcement could put a virginia woman into jail for a year. the state senator who introduced that bill, the guy who's now running as republican candidate for attorney general in the state of virginia which is why the ads against him in the state of virginia look like this. >> if you think ken cuccinelli would take virginia in the wrong direction, wait until you meet obenshane. they co-sponsored a bill together to ban the birth control pill and outlaw...
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it's federal law. this is a part of the u.s. military. as "the new york times" noted this week, the applications for i.d. cards are federal form processed by federal employees on a federal computer system. but in these nine states, they're saying, states' rights. they're saying because they have anti-gay laws at the state levels, they will not process service members' applications equally. they are defying federal law so they can keep discriminating against some members of the national guard, against the wishes of the u.s. military. tonight, secretary of defense chuck hagel, just moments ago, actually, a few blocks from here, he has just given a rather remarkable and confrontational speech at a dinner for the anti-defamation league here in new york, calling out nine states that are defying the defense department and defying federal law in order to keep discriminating. texas, apparently, was the first state to announce that they were going to do this, but now it is nine states altogether and the secretary says that among these nine states,
it's federal law. this is a part of the u.s. military. as "the new york times" noted this week, the applications for i.d. cards are federal form processed by federal employees on a federal computer system. but in these nine states, they're saying, states' rights. they're saying because they have anti-gay laws at the state levels, they will not process service members' applications equally. they are defying federal law so they can keep discriminating against some members of the...
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and now by law they can't. that's supposed to be an improvement. eric, do you have another caller for me? >> melissa, we have mitch from kentucky. mitch, you're on the air. >> caller: many americans are finding they'll be seeing premium increases or that they'll be getting hit with higher co-pays and deductibles or that they'll no longer see the doctors or use the hospitals of their choice. >> oh, mitch. let's talk about this. about 5% of people are already in the individual market, and some of them are going to get a better deal because the aca caps out of pocket costs and offers subsidies on all the rest. yes, some people are also going to pay more. they're going to have to change doctors or they just won't like their new plans. we don't know yet exactly how that's going to break down, but there are also millions who will get insurance who had none before. they're going to be able to take their medications every day and get a flu shot. and then there's 5 million more who would be covered if all the states including those republican-led states had
and now by law they can't. that's supposed to be an improvement. eric, do you have another caller for me? >> melissa, we have mitch from kentucky. mitch, you're on the air. >> caller: many americans are finding they'll be seeing premium increases or that they'll be getting hit with higher co-pays and deductibles or that they'll no longer see the doctors or use the hospitals of their choice. >> oh, mitch. let's talk about this. about 5% of people are already in the individual...